12 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN pears to be ideally cast for the job. Through Saturday, Nov. 20. (Midtown, I I E. 57th St ) LAWRENCE FANE-Abstract welded-steel sculp- tures made fro111 such found obj ects as car bU111pers and sewer pipes. Through Satur- day, Nov. 27. (Pearl, 29 W. 57th St.) WILLIAM FAREs-PaIntings done with layered acrylic, some of it peeled back, and all built around a basic geometrical shape. Through Dec. 4. (Esman, 29 W. 57th St.) LIONEL GILBERT-Semi-abstract still-life paint- ings. Through Dec. 24. (Alonzo, in a new location, at 30 W. 57th St.) ROBERT GWATHMEy-A retrospective of the stylized, Gothic compositions by this artist, who has devoted much of his career to de- picting the plight of the black man in the Deep South; included are some pencil draw- ings lightly washed with color that offer a sunnier side of the situation. Through Sat- urday, Nov. 27. (Dintenfass, 50 W. 57th St.) YVONNE JACQUETTE-Bird's-eye views of the 11aine countryside and the East River, paint- ed by a young artist who makes sketches and snapshots from airplanes and converts them into large paintings or monotypes al1110st as detailed-and somehow more realistic-than aerial photographs. Through Nov. 30. (Alex- ander, 20 W. 57th St ) NANCY WILSON KITCHEL-An installation consist- ing of \\ hat appears to be an abandoned office (six desks, with chairs, phones, etc.), which is meant to convey, by contrast with the rela- tively busy gallery it is appended to, some- thing about the relationship of art and so- ciety. Between the gallery and the in'3tallation, an auto111atic Olivetti typewriter, serving as a sort of Greek chorus, spews out, over and 0\ er, an encyclopedia-length explanation by the artist. Through Saturday, Nov. 27. (D' Arc, IS E. 57th St.) HENRY MOORE-Small sculptures and a series of lithographs, plus an original colored draw- ing, make up this pleasant exhibit. Through Dec 10. (Heidenberg, 50 W. 57th St.) GREG OTTo-Drawings done with a soft-lead Eagle Turquoise pencil (B to 3B) on a heavy rag paper called Museum Board; in most of them, thousands upon thousands of tiny strokes cover the entire sheet giving it the appearance of a pebbled surface, in \vhich some viewers, thanks to an optical illusion of sorts see various colors. Through Saturday, Nov. 20. (Parsons-Dreyfuss, 24 \V 57th St.) ARNALDO POMODORo-T111mense sculptures in bronze, stainless steel, and structural steel, in many cases consisting of a simple geometric figure-a sphere, a cylinder, a pyramid- whose polished surf ace has been cracked open at some point, revealing an intricate, honey- comb structure underneath. There are a cou- ple of preparatory drawings, done on canvas on the same herculean scale. Through Satur- day. Nov. 20 (l\.1arlborough, 40 YV. 57th St.) TOMMY SIMPSON-Odd constructions handsomely turned out in raw, nnfinished l\'ood. Through Saturday, Nov. 27. (Portnoy, 56 W. 57th St.) SAUL STEINBERG-Cartoons. Through Dec. 4. (Parsons, 24 W. 57th St.) HORACIO TORRES (1924-76)-Paintings of nudes done in the classical tradition. Through Dec. 2. (De Nagy 29 W. 57th St.) ERNEST TRovA-Recent sculptures, 1110St of them outsize pieces (the largest is sIxteen feet long) n1ade of stainless steel or Corten steel. It is interesting to see that elements of his fa1110us "Falling 11an" are discernible here and there, all but absorbed into the massive abstractions. Through Dec. 1. (Pace, 32 E. 57th St ) JOYCE WEINSTEIN-Abstract oils and pastels. Through Dec. 3. (Cortella, 41 E. 57th St.) NEIL WelLIVER-Huge, dramatic paintings of wetlands in Maine, where flooded streams come gushing down the 1110untainsides through snow-covered boulders into stump- ridden flats full of beaver dams and lodges. The scale is heroic. and the visitor is sur- prised at the small size of the oil sketches, also on view, from which they derived. Through Dec. 4. (Fischbach, 29 W. 57th St.) GALLERI ES-SoHo DOTTY ATTIE-Three series of tiny, photographi- cally exact pencil copies of details from clas- sical works, which are used to illustrate weird, cryptic stories made up by the artist; S-M- r-w. r. F-S 21 '2212J f : I :8 I : I 20 27 one dainty lIttle horror is about a child who sucks his thumb. Through Dec. I. (A.I.R., 97 Wooster St.) JANET BRAUN-REINITZ I ARLINE HERSHBERG-Swags of filmy white or black nylon material draped in sculptural shapes. Through Nov. 28.1 Paintings of hers of cubes, done in bright colors and offering the same illusion one sees in a schoolboy's drawing of a skeletal cube: Is it coming or going? Through Sun- day, Nov. 21. (Pleiades, 152 Wooster St. Open Sundays.) NORMAN COLP I JUDY COHEN AND HARVEY STEIN- 11 r Colp vectors in on the art world again by (a) computing the "mass" of ten local dealers (Paula Cooper, I van Karp, and Bar- bar a Toll among them), and translating the sum into leaden cubes (the smallest weighs thirty-six pounds seven ounces), which are displayed on a white pedestal, and by (b) collecting minute particles-dust, hair, lint- that had settled on art works in leading gal- leries, and exhibiting this debris along with color photographs of the works involved. I A tribute to Smokey the Bear that, by the un- happy coincidence of his recent death, is un- usually timely. 11iss Cohen dressed herself in a Smokey outfit and posed for photographs (by 11r. Stein) in areas where S1110key's crusade might have helped-a blighted district in the Bronx, for instance. Through Dec. 4. (Hundred Acres, 456 \i\T est Broadway.) MICHAEL COOPER I R. J. KREZNAR-Collage paint- ings.1 Glass sculptures. Through Dec. 4. (O.K. Harris, 383 West Broad,\ay.) JACKIE FERRARA-Unpainted birch plywood and Masonite stacked in the shape of pyramids. Also related drawings. Through Dec I. (Protetch, 157 Spring St.) SIDEO FROMBoLuTi-Larger-than-life renditions of partially nude drowsy-looking female fig- ures, plus landscapes, by an artist \vho paints with a thick impasto. Through Wednesday, Nov. 24. (Landmark, 469 Broo111e St. Opens at I 1:30.) BUCKMI NSTER FULLER-The centerpiece of this sho\v is a multifaceted, spherical piece, set on a freestanding shaft about five feet high and titled "'Jitterbug,' a Sculpture Describing the Synergetic Transformation of Nature's Structural Component-the Tetrahedron." That just about sums it up. Through Satur- day, Nov. 20. (Solway, 139 Spring St.) CYNTHIA GAllAGHER I JULIUS TOBIAs-Large ab- stract paintings and small works on paper. I A single work in cement that consists of 1\vo units that run the full length of the gallery. Through Wednesday, Nov. 24. (55 11ercer Street Gallery.) GORDON HART-A new development in thIS art- i'3t's huge mural-size abstract oil paintings is that he is now dividing the canvas into two or more distinct color areas, instead of de- voting a whole canvas to one, as he has in the past. His use of contrasting rods of color at the sides of his work continues Through Dec. 1. (Caldwell 383 West Broadway.) MARGARET MILLER-Sculptures incorporating wood, rope, and twigs. Through Wednesday, Nov. 24. (14 Sculptors, 75 Thompson St.) ELIZABETH MURRAy-Abstract oils, S0111e of them on shaped canvas, in which a central field of interest-sometimes a single, si111ple shape, and sometimes a relatively complicated ar- rangement-is set on a contrasting back- ground that the painter has worked hard to keep subdued. First solo show in N ew York. Through Saturday. Nov. 27. (Cooper, 155 Wooster St.) BRUCE NAUMAN-Recent sculptures; to wit, a dozen cubical forms (technically, they are rhombohedrons) made of plaster and loosely arranged on the floor in one room, and, in another, fourteen smaller ones, sliced from a steel bar six inches square. There is also a grim-looking cage, made of a steel frame and heavy-duty steel mesh, sixteen and a half feet long, thirteen and a half feet wide, and seven feet tall, with a second cage, about a foot smaller, inside. Through Saturday, Nov. 27. (Sperone Westwater Fischer, 142 Greene St.). . . f1I An installation made up of huge limestone cubes, accompanied by a text Through Saturday, Nov. 20. (Sonnabend, 420 West Broadway.) CLAES OLDENBURG-Recent comic conceits of this modern master, most of them shown in vari- ous sizes, ranging from relative portability to monun1ental-among them a typewriter eras- er (the kind ,vith a brush), a compact render- ing of the alphabet in what looks like wet noodles, ser\ ed up on a Good Humor stick, and a wood screw that could be taken for an African carving. Through Dec. 4. (Castelli, 420 and -po West Broadway.) ROBERT PERLEss-Huge mobiles, called "wind sculptures," which move with a certain dig- nitv \" hen a breeze engages the111. The largest is an extended "V," like a bird in flight, that i<:; t\venty-five feet long and set on a twelve- foot triangular pedesta1. Through Nov. 30. (Bonino, 98 Prince St.) DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE- This artist, who uses an ancient Greek mathematical formula to work out the shape of her compositions (they con- sist of creased and folded abstractions made of linen or heavy paper), has now begun to color them according to the dictates of her own intuition, rather than by ca1culation- ,,,ith good results. Through Saturday, Nov. 27. (Weber 420 West Broadway.) JACQUELINE SHATz-Abstract paintings based on flowers. Through pec. I (Razor, 464 West Broadway. Opens at 1.) MICHelLE STUART-Strips of paper (which have in1pressions of rocks and earth embedded in their surface) are affixed to the gallery walls. Through Saturday N ov. 20. (Hutchinson, 138 Greene St.) REPRESENTATIONAL DRAWINGS-Outstanding works in graphite and other mediums by four art- j<.;t,,- \V olfgang Gafgen, \\, ho focusses here on lengths of frayed rope; Juan Gonzales, who depict" a gauzy curtain rising over a gentle seascape; Joe Nicastri, who draws delicately tinted bouquets of fading flowers on a plaster ground; and Bill Richards, who sets d )\vn every fern, every stem, every shadow In a S\vaInpy thicket. Through Dec. 9. (Hoff111an, 429 \Vest Broadvvay.) OTHER GALLERIES MICHAEL DONOHUE-Abstract paintings. Through Saturday, Nov. 20. (47 Bond Street Gallery, one block north of Bleecker St, between Broadway and Bov'very. Wednesdays through Sundays, I to 6.) RICHARD FLEISCHNER-An outdoor piece built on the site and consisting of a trestlelike wooden raInp a hundred feet long, rising from ground level to a height of ten feet and covered with a thick green layer of growing sod. Through Nov. 30. (Hammarskjöld Plaza Sculpture Garden, Second Ave. at 47th St ) NORMAN LEWls-A retrospective of his abstract pdintings. Through Friday, Nov. 19. (Cìty University Graduate Center, ground-floor arcade. 33 yV. 42nd St. Mondays through Fridays, 9 to 6.) ANDY W ARHoL-Pen-and-ink drawings com- pleted this year. Through Dec. IS. (Visual Arts, 209 E. 23rd St. Mondays through Thursdays, noon to 9; Fridays, except Nov. 26, from I I to 4 :30.) NEW YORK'S STEPCHILDREN-An exhibit of photo- graphs of architectural details on civic build- ings, some of which are earmarked for de- struction. Starts Thursday, Nov. 18. (Amer- ican Institute of Architects, 20 yV. 40th St. 110ndays through Fridays, except Nov. 26, from 9 :30 to 4 :3 0 .) ANEMONES:- AN AIR AQUARIUM-An undersea en- vironment in which enormous lobsters, carp, blowfish, sea anemones, and the like, made of clear, soft polyethylene and red sailcloth, s\\ ell up to their full size-as much as forty feet long-when con1puter-set air blowers turn on, and subside. as if exhausted, when the blowers turn off. Spectators are free to walk around in this pulsating world, and marvel at the whole operation, which was created by the artist Otto Piene and his as- sistants Mira Cantor, Ragnhild Karlstrom, and Ken Leslie, and which occupies the glass-enclosed ground flaor of 88 Pine St (a block north of Wall St.). Through Dec 31. (Tuesdays through Fridays, I I :30 to 2; Saturdays, noon to 3 :30.) GROUP SHow-A single painting or sculpture by a group of women artists that includes lice